darklordoftech

flametitan said:

According to the official databank, the deformation is purely because of lightning melting his face in the current canon, not an ulterior method. http://www.starwars.com/databank/palpatine-biography-gallery (The image with Palpatine’s “Unlimited Power” face has the caption you’re looking for)

That leaves the method by which Luke didn’t get deformed a mystery, but for that:

Starwars.com isn’t canon.

http://therealcharleslippincott.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/the-alan-dean-foster-interviews.html?m=1 This interview provides insight into what Lucas had in mind in 1977.

“No, there is another” always referred to a long-lost twin sister, but the long-lost twin sister was intended to be someone we hadn’t seen before, not Leia.

“The strain of all this exertion is what’s transforming him into the Emperor” - John Knoll, DVD/Blu-Ray commentary

However, in the Plagueis novel, Plagueis tells Sidious that you can become more powerful through an ancient Sith ritual that involves getting hit by Force Lightning, but will be deformed in the process.

There has to be more to it than getting hit by lightning because the “scars” are symmetrical and Maul and Vader also have yellow eyes.

DuracellEnergizer said:

That suit more-or-less fits my mental image of what Vader’s original suit of armour looked like before wear and tear reduced it to the lustreless version seen in the original film

Maybe it gets worn and torn throughout Rogue One.

ZkinandBonez said:
do the general public in the SW universe know that the Empire is being run by a Sith lord?

They know that Vader is a Sith Lord, but they don’t know that Palpatine is a Sith Lord. They think Palpatine is a figurehead controlled by Mas Amedda, Vader, and Tarkin.

Zahn likely knew that Palpatine was the mastermind of the Clone Wars, as indicated by Palpatine having cloning tech and having created Joruus.

Zahn likely would have used the term “Dark Jedi” instead of the term “Sith”, with “Jedi” referring to anyone who can use The Force. Zahn was going to call the Noghri “the Sith” with Vader’s title coming from his control of them, but Lucasfilm advised Zahn not to do that in case the prequels defined the word “Sith”.

If cloning was more common before the rise of the Empire, the implications are interesting. Maybe the Old Republic era had armies of mad Sith clones.

The Republic was stated to have had anti-alien elements such as Tarkin that became the Empire. It’s likely that the Republic leadership was entirely human. Anti-alienism doesn’t seem to be an issue in the prequels.

The Thrawn trilogy says that the Dagobah cave came to be as a result of yoda slaying a “dark Jedi” there.

You know what they say about a stopped clock.

Good to hear that the Rebels creators said no to Ysalamiri. As someone on this website said, the Ysalamiri were like if the Bible had religion-cancelling cats that prevented Jesus from walking on water.

It’s good to see an RA-7 droid again.

http://therealcharleslippincott.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/the-alan-dean-foster-interviews.html?m=1

The initial split between the Jedi and Sith.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

darklordoftech said:

• Replace Palpatine’s ROTJ advisors with Mas Amedda and Sly Moore
• Fix the lightsabers
• Fix the mattes

• No
• Nooooooooooooooooooooo OT sabers are beautiful
• No

I was referring to fixing the SE lightsabers.

• Replace Palpatine’s ROTJ advisors with Mas Amedda and Sly Moore
• Fix the lightsabers
• Fix the mattes

I’d love for the new canon to tell a story set in between ROTS and Tarkin/LOTS. I want to see ships that are in between V-Wings and TIE fighters, in between Venators and Imperial-class Destroyers, etc.

I don’t like the idea of Force-sensitivity being clonable because that raises the question of why The Emperor didn’t clone Vader. I also think that Obi-Wan and Owen being brothers was a Kasdan idea that Lucas rejected because Lucas didn’t mention it when he explained the backstory to Kasdan in 1981 and it doesn’t appear in drafts of the screenplay from before Kasdan made his revisions.

1. Yes. There was no need to copy Tatooine.

2. Sounds cool.

3. See above.

4. Vader’s helmet as the mcguffin would be cool, but no thanks to Luke showing up earlier.

5. Not sure how that would fit into the story, but it’s worth keeping in mind if they ever revisit the KOTOR era.

6. Sounds cool.

7. NOOOOOOO!!! TFA had enough rehasing as it is.

8. I could go either way on this idea.

9. What does the drill do?

10. Who/what is being rescued?

I like the idea of Starkiller Base being a hoax if it’s a thing at all.

rocknroll41 said:

you can’t really have the main base of the villains be the fire-and-ice world and Dantooine at the same time. U kinda have to pick one or the other.

Why? We don’t know what the canonical geography of Dantooine is.

Definitely 3. We could use a multi-biome planet and the fire-and-ice theme fits the lightsabers of Finn/Rey and Kylo. I also like the idea that the Starkiller Base planet is Dantooine.

I like your idea of Snoke being the dark side itself and the First Order being an ancient organization that inspired the Empire. That explains why Snoke would lead a regime with so much resemblence to Palpatine’s, establishes Snoke as a bigger bad than Palpatine, and fits with the TFA novelization’s references to Rey hearing Snoke’s voice (if Snoke is the dark side itself, temptation by the dark side = hearing Snoke’s voice). Maybe the yellow eyes normally seen on the Sith indicate some sort of possesion by Snoke and Kylo doesn’t have those eyes because Snoke didn’t bother using his possesive powers on Kylo, instead preferring a willing servent? Maybe VIII or IX could reveal that the First Order absorbed what was left of the Empire rather than being formed from what was left of the Empire.

Hayden’s ghost. It doesn’t fit the feeling of the scene (Luke seeing the spirits of those who shaped him), it raises the question of why we don’t see a ghost of Dooku as he was before he turned, and he looks creepy.

The Blu-Rays are aging badly. Those lightsabers aren’t getting any better, the low brightness and blue tint make matte paintings stick out, and the 97/04 CGI is really dated, especially when superimposed on 77/80/83 films. Also, Abrams and Johnson both hate the SEs more than they hate the prequels and Holiday Special combined and the SEs would be inconsistent with a PT-avoiding VII, VIII, and IX.

I wish that instead of them waisting time on a last-minute, Palpatine-by-another-name CGI hologram, we just heard Snoke’s voice and Snoke’s appearance would be left to VIII or IX, where they would have more time to work on it and JJ “must rehash everything” Abrams wouldn’t ruin it.